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25/08/2026

He Kept a Running Count of His Own Near-Deaths.
This is the true story of Eddie Rickenbacker — America’s top flying ace of the First World War, who went on to survive a plane crash, then twenty-four days lost at sea with seven other men and almost nothing to eat.

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24/08/2026

This is the true story of John Basilone, the Marine who held a line alone with a machine gun, a pistol, and a machete, then walked away from fame to go back and die with his outfit.

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23/08/2026

This is the true story of Russell Dunham — a Technical Sergeant who saved his entire company, then had to escape his own captors just to make it home.

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(Correction, you will hear 1935 but it's actually mean to be 1945)

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21/08/2026

This is the true story of Irena Sendler — the woman who saved hundreds of children from the Warsaw Ghetto, and never once claimed the number most people remember her for.

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21/08/2026

This is the true story of Lee Marvin, a scout Marine who survived one of the deadliest ambushes of the Pacific War, years before Hollywood ever knew his name.

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20/08/2026

This is the true story of Noel Chavasse — the only man to win the Victoria Cross twice in the First World War, and one of only three people in history to ever receive it twice at all.

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19/08/2026

This is the true story of Garlin Conner — the man whose Medal of Honor took 73 years, a stranger’s chance discovery, and his widow’s 22-year fight to finally arrive.

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17/08/2026

This is the true story of Simo Häyhä, the deadliest sniper history has ever recorded. And even his own side couldn’t agree on how many.

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15/08/2026

The first Black combat pilot in history — and the world almost forgot his name. Eugene Bullard flew for France in WWI, boxed his way across Europe, ran a nightclub in Harlem’s golden age, and spied for the French Resistance in WWII. America wouldn’t let him fly for his own country. France gave him thirteen medals.
The first Black combat pilot in history — and the world almost forgot his name. Eugene Bullard flew for France in WWI, boxed his way across Europe, ran a nightclub in Harlem’s golden age, and spied for the French Resistance in WWII. America wouldn’t let him fly for his own country. France gave him thirteen medals.

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13/08/2026

At fourteen, he forged his mother’s signature to enlist. At seventeen, he was diving on two live grenades to save the men around him.

This is the true story of Jack Lucas — the youngest Marine ever to receive the Medal of Honor. And you’ve never heard it told like this.

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